Bill Loveless is a host on the Columbia Energy Exchange and Director of CGEP's Energy Journalism Initiative. He is a senior energy journalist with nearly 40 years of experience covering energy policy, regulation, and business from the Carter administration to the Trump administration.

Bill spent most of his career at The McGraw-Hill Companies (now S&P Global) as a reporter, editor and editorial director for Platts, an international provider of energy news and prices, and other McGraw-Hill energy news services. From 2010 to 2014, he anchored “Platts Energy Week,” a weekly TV program that aired on the CBS affiliate in Washington, D.C., and on PBS stations across the U.S.

He is a recipient of the McGraw-Hill Companies Corporate Achievement Award.

From 2015 to 2017, Bill wrote a weekly column for USA Today focusing on energy policy, business and technology trends.

A graduate of the University of Rhode Island, Bill began his career as a newspaper reporter in Rhode Island. He is a member of the Harrington School of Communications and Media Executive Advisory Board at URI.